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What can be done about it? We have to spend more time on validation activities, instead of only looking at verification Verification => That we are building it right Validation => That we are building the right thing While many of us will nod our heads wisely, there is little evidence on the ground in terms of behaviour.

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What are the signs of validation We should see that significantly more functionality being designed as a result of validation… in other words there are many more alternate paths identified. 80% of the code is executed in only 20% of the instances. We would be filling in the 80%. The analysts/designers, and end customers engage more with the testers, only then we’d have justification to the title of Quality Assurance.